Re: What databases have taught me

>> Nick Malik [Microsoft] wrote:
>>> One of the more brilliant troll messages I've seen in a while. You say
>>> nothing that contributes to anything. You blast someone's pet idea
>>> without
>>> offering anything in return. Then you sit back and watch the flames
>>> fly.
>>
>> You're going to feel silly, having written the above, when you are
>> far enough along to reach the same realization that JOG had.
>>
>> I speak from experience.

> > I'm with you, seems a premature, maybe even an immature judgment to me. > Didn't read all the offshoots but part of the thread struck me as > provocative and interesting after keith d made his light compiler > comment. Aloha added to it with his relation literals although I'm not > sure whether he or she intended that. Maybe it's just because bridging > the theory and the machine is an interest of mine. I think it's not so > much a compiler matter but more to do with what I think of as a minimal > interpreter. I think D&D Algebra is quite implementable all by itself > and that would have value.> > In one post, bob b hinted at optimization/user friendliness issues (my > words, not his) which my point-of-view usually considers to be nothing > more than a matter of taste (I was more or less in agreement with what > Dijkstra said about "user-friendly" in one of his interviews - I think > he was complaining about lowest-common-denominator UI's, which Codd > opened the door for). I could be more provocative and say that I think > other practical matters such as persistence and transactions are > orthogonal to rt and so would. ...

Don't know what happened to that cursory thought, think I meant to type
"and so would be a significant part of a full TTM impl'n".